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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I, Scene 3 through Act I, Scene 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bentley describe Moritz and Melchior in relationship to each other?
(a) A surrogate fatherly relationship.
(b) Complete opposites.
(c) Extremely alike.
(d) The result of one person's love not being reciprocated.

2. How many students are competing for sixty seats?
(a) Sixty-seven.
(b) Sixty-one.
(c) Sixty-five.
(d) Sixty-three.

3. To whom does Bentley relate the masked man, especially in relation to summary of morality?
(a) Wedekind.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Faust.
(d) Brecht.

4. How many students in Melchior and Moritz's class will be allowed to graduate to the next grade?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Seventy.

5. How does Moritz feel about his dreams?
(a) He believes they are messages from God.
(b) He fears they are evil dreams.
(c) He does not understand them.
(d) He looks forward to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What favor does Moritz ask of Melchior in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. What happened to the play after it was first printed?

3. What does Melchior initially believe about people who do good works?

4. In the first scene, what does Wendla wonder about her future?

5. What is Wendla's mother doing to her daughter's dress in the beginning of the play?

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